Playwright
Theatre Director
Dramaturg
Writing and directing for theatre for over twelve years.
Performance Gallery
Here are some of my past productions
Short + Sweet Reviews
Take a look at what the reviewers said about my short plays over the years
Writing Work in Progress
SEED VAULT – work in progress
In the near future …
While investigating a mysterious world wide crop blight an ambitious young agronomist uncovers an eco-conspiracy with potential to jeopardize mankind’s ability to feed itself. As he searches for the stolen contents of the Seed Vault, he discovers a new respect for his disgraced environmental activist father, finds love and creates hope for humanity’s otherwise almost certain starvation.
THE BRIDGE CLUB – work in progress
This is a television sitcom set in a bridge club. I personally have been playing for five years now having learned in a club environment and this is what has been the inspiration for this sitcom. Suffice to say that the game is peopled by many eccentrics. who are diverse in age and nationality and personality. The pressure of the game in a competitive environment does a lot to reveal their deeper natures and there is never a game where I don’t find material that would work in a show. Did I mention it’s a comedy!
CRUISING the MUSICAL – work in progress
Cruising the Musical is a light contemporary romantic comedy set on a cruise ship.
A conservative thirty something couple, Roger and Samantha have been married long enough to know they shouldn’t be any more, but they take a last chance cruise so they can ‘work things out’. He’s betrayed her. And she’s got her own secrets. On their first night they meet their worst nightmare – Astrid. She is a nosy psychiatrist from Miami. Think rich. Blonde. Botoxed.
Jack is her cardiologist “husband”: creamy dessert eating, Tequila-loving cardiologist.
These two have a zest for life that is infectious; party animals who can’t stand to see anyone unhappy so they get involved and show the unwilling couple how it’s done. When Astrid’s actual husband Victor turns up at the next port, things spin around and not for the better. It turns out Astrid and Jack are not married but are having an affair, and they may have lied about some other things as well!
News & Current events
ASYLUM
Images by Simona Janek Set against the tragedy of statelessness this play reveals the personal stories of Hajir, a Lebanese man seeking asylum in Australia, and Craig, the immigration officer who has the power to shape his destiny. As their lives unfold in parallel, we’re drawn into a poignant exploration of identity, belonging and the […]
Gratitude
In 2016 I had a random conversation with my son Max who was working at Big Poppas at the time. His co-worker was Kieran Took who is involved in a fabulous theatre company called Brave New Word said they were looking for new Australian works to produce. Max knew I’d been working on Asylum (then […]
Dramaturgy and Writing Feedback
Through my work with The Writers Studio, I’ve guided more than 120 aspiring novelists in bringing their first drafts to life.
I’ve also supported numerous playwrights and musical theatre writers through dramaturgy and script doctoring.
AI Play Draft Review available
You have finished a draft. You know something is working—but you may also sense that the play is losing momentum, repeating itself or not delivering the ending you intended.
Playwright Draft Review offers a detailed, story-first analysis of your script. It examines not only what the play is about, but how it works dramatically: what keeps the audience watching, where the pressure builds, where it drops and whether each scene genuinely changes what can happen next.
The analysis is generated using a custom AI Skill developed by Ruth Fingret from her work as a playwright, theatre director, dramaturg and story doctor.
It is not generic AI feedback. T
What you receive
You will receive a professionally presented Word report containing:
an overall structural diagnosis
analysis of the play’s engine, theme and dramatic question
character and relationship tracking
scene and sequence analysis
a source-of-conflict assessment
an exposition and pacing audit
analysis of the climax and ending
three focused revision priorities
Feedback is candid, practical and supported by specific evidence from the script.
Who is it for?
Playwright Draft Review is useful if:
you have completed a first or later draft
the individual scenes work but the whole play does not yet hold together
you are preparing for a reading, workshop or submission
you have received conflicting feedback and need a clearer structural diagnosis
you want to understand why a character arc, revelation or ending is not landing
you want rigorous feedback without having your work rewritten into somebody else’s play
Confidentiality and creative control
You retain all copyright and intellectual-property rights in your script.
Your work is used only to prepare the requested analysis. It is not reproduced, published, shared or repurposed. Before submitting a script, you will be asked to confirm that the relevant ChatGPT model-training setting has been switched off.
The report is AI-assisted and may contain interpretations with which you disagree. You remain entirely in control of your play and of every revision decision.
Full dramaturgical script analysis: $50
Please send me a message via the contact box below if interested
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Ruth Fingret Career History
For a more detailed look at my career and achievements you can download a copy of my CV
